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$Id: ABOUT,v 1.20 2011/02/13 14:19:32 simple Exp $ |
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About Eggdrop |
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Last revised: October 02, 2011 |
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About Eggdrop |
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Eggdrop was created around December 1993 to help stop the incessant wars |
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on #gayteen. It spawned from another bot that was in the process of being |
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written at the time called "Unrest". The purpose of Unrest was to answer |
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help requests from other bots. The first public release of Eggdrop was |
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version 0.6, and since then, it has grown into what you have before you. |
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Eggdrop is the World's most popular Internet Relay Chat (IRC) bot; it is |
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freely distributable under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Eggdrop |
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is a feature rich program designed to be easily used and expanded upon by |
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both novice and advanced IRC users on a variety of hardware and software |
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platforms. |
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An IRC bot is a program that sits on an IRC channel and performs automated |
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tasks while looking just like a normal user on the channel. Some of these |
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functions include protecting the channel from abuse, allowing privileged |
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users to gain op or voice status, logging channel events, providing |
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information, hosting games, etc. |
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One of the features that makes Eggdrop stand out from other bots is module |
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and Tcl scripting support. With scripts and modules, you can make the bot |
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perform almost any task you want. They can do anything from preventing |
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floods to greeting users and banning advertisers from channels. |
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You can also link multiple Eggdrop bots together to form a botnet. |
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This can allow bots to op each other securely, control floods efficiently, |
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and even link channels across multiple IRC networks. It also allows the |
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Eggdrops share user lists, ban lists, exempt/invite lists, and ignore |
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lists with other bots if userfile sharing is enabled. This allows users |
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to have the same access on every bot on your botnet. It also allows the |
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bots to distribute tasks such as opping and banning users. See doc/BOTNET |
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for information on setting up a botnet. |
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Eggdrop is always being improved and adjusted because there are bugs to |
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be fixed and features to be added (if the users demand them, and they |
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make actually sense). In fact, it existed for several years as v0.7 - |
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v0.9 before finally going 1.0. This version of Eggdrop is part of the |
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1.6 tree. A valiant effort has been made to chase down and destroy bugs. |
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To use Eggdrop, you need: |
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* Some sort of Unix account |
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* A pretty good knowledge of IRC and Unix, including how to compile |
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programs, how to read, and what DCC chat is, at absolute minimum. |
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* About 5-7 MB of disk space for installation and up to 15 MB during |
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compilation. The Eggdrop tarball is about 5.8 MB unpacked. |
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* Tcl -- Eggdrop cannot compile without Tcl installed on your shell. |
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Before starting, ask yourself if you really need a bot. Most IRC servers |
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allow only a handful of bots, and some forbid them outright. The reason? Too |
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many people run bots as "toys" or as a means of destruction. If you want to |
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use Eggdrop for destructive purposes, go ahead and erase this directory now. |
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It's almost impossible to do what you want with this bot. |
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_____________________________________________________________________ |
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Copyright (C) 1999 - 2011 Eggheads Development Team |
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